SUMMARY

• Hands on experience in designing, deploying virtual and physical environment and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Design and Implement virtualization solutions based on VMware ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1 , ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 platform, VMware vSphere 6.5/6.0/5.5 vCenter 6.0/5.5/5.1and vBlock 100/200/300/700 series. Convert server from physical to virtual using VMware vConverter.
• Extensive expertise in Data Center Environment using ESX server 3.5, 4.0,4.1, ESXi 4.1,5.1,6.0 and VSphere VCenter Server 4.1,5.0,5.1, 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 running Other VMware Products like VCenter Update Manager4.0,4.1,5.1 VCenter Lab manager 4.0, VMware View 4.5 and 4.0 and Site Recovery Manager 4.1 4.0 on Linux/Unix and Windows environment.
• High understanding on resource management framework like creation of resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools. Capacity planning using vRealize Operations Manager (vROps). Extensive experience in creating virtual machines from golden image/template. Exposure to and understanding of Citrix Xen Desktop 6.5 and 7.13 including Citrix Director.
• Experience in configuring protection groups and recovery plans to protect Virtual machines and perform disaster recovery test using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) in case of real disaster.
• Experience in installing vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) and configuring firewall rules to protect Virtual machines from outside network attacks.
• Experience in setting up Microsoft and VMware cluster environment for high availability of respective Windows and ESXi servers.Scripting experience wif Power CLI and PowerShell.
• Experience wif Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling & labeling, maintaining AC cooling, power and UPS monitoring.
• Experience of managing a large Microsoft Server environment wif Systems Center Configuration Management (SCCM) and System Center Operations Management.
• Experience in designing and deploying Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco Fabric Interconnect and Chassis.
• Experience wif Cisco B series blade servers and HP rack - mount and blade servers.
• Experience wif Web Filer and Security using Force Point Appliance (Web Sense).
• Expertise in Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012R2 administration and active directory (AD), DNS, DHACP, GPO administration. Patch Windows Servers using SCCM.
• Experience in Veeam and EMC Avamar Backup solutions.
• Experience in technical documentation for quality, compliance and security purpose.
• Good experience in working wif end users and customers to resolve production issues.
• Familiarity wif SAN technologies; Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS/VMFS storage strategies for performance and optimization and RAID concept.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows Server 2008, 2012 R2, Windows 7 and Linux

Programming Languages: Java, J2EE

Virtualization Products: vSphere 4.1/5.x/6.x, vCenter Server 4.x/5.x/6.x, DRS, HA and FT, VMWare Stand-alone Converter 4.x/5.x/6.x, VMware Update Manager, SRM, vCNS, vROPs.

System Management: Microsoft SCCM 2012 and 2007, HP iLO, Raritan Dominion KVM Switches, IBM XIV Management studio and EMC Management.

Application Servers: Microsoft Active Directory 2008/2008 R2, DNS, DHCP, MSSQL

Backup Solutions: Symantec NetBackup and Backup exec, Vranger Pro Veeam, EMC Avamar

Hardware: Cisco Fabric Interconnect, Cisco UCS Chassis & Blade Servers, HP ProLiant Blade and Rackmount Servers, Dell Servers, Network Interface Card, HBA card, Printers, Processors

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dublin, CA

Senior VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Building datacenter including assembling hardware in HP and Cisco servers, rack mounting, cabling and labeling. Monitoring server hardware health and power units.
• Designed and completed ESX 4.1 server up-gradation to ESXi 5.5 (90 hosts) and upgraded 1500+ VMs hardware version, deployed and supporting VMware vSphere 5.5 to 6.5 and SRM 5.5.
• Administration and management of Virtual infrastructure environment - monitor, analyze, identify and troubleshoot issues, upgrade of Virtual infrastructure products - VMware vSphere suite 6.0/5.x/4.x including VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESX/ESXi clusters, Virtual machines and templates; VMware Site Recovery manager for Disaster recovery of environment; P2Vs; Citrix virtual desktop support.
• Install 50+ ESXi hosts, 4 vCenter server, vRealize Operations manager (vROPs) and Site Recovery Manager. Set up virtual network using vSphere Distributed Switch, standard switch, port groups and VM kernel.
• Install vCloud Networking and Security (vShield Manager and vShield App) in virtual environment to secure PHI data. Configure security groups and assign firewall rules to protect VMs from outside network attacks.
• Creating clusters, Resource pools and adding VM’s to them and installing VM Tools. Configured HA and DRS, SDRS as per VMware best practices. Capacity planning using vRealize Operations Manager (vROps).
• Route fiber cables from servers to Cisco MDS 9500/Brocade switches through patch panel.
• Configure zoning on SAN Switches and create and assign LUNs from SAN storage array to ESXi cluster/Hosts.
• Design and configure Cisco 6248/6296 Fabric Interconnects from scratch, rack-stack FIs, 5108 chassis wif B200 M3/M4 blades.
• Install and upgrade firmware on all Cisco hardware and software including Fabric Interconnect, UCS Manager, IO Module, CIMC controller, NIC, BIOS, board controller etc.
• Reconfigured all ESXi network connectivity utilization including VLAN tagging and teaming also the configuration of many vSwitches, dvSwitches wif 802.1q VLAN tagging.
• Configured LACP on dvSwitches for improving the bandwidth and for teaming fail over.
• Setup and configured cisco routers and switches and configured separate VLAN'S for each port group so dat only same VLAN'S can communicate wif the each other.
• Configured redundancy between switches and configured 802.1q Trunking, vlan tagging in the switches and configured the Spanning-Tree, LACP.
• Installed cabling like CAT6 and also configured RJ45 ports wif color coding for straight through and cross-over cabling.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Active Directory Services. Setting up Domain Controllers and configuring DHCP, DNS servers.
• Active Directory users, groups, and computers including delegating authority and applying permissions to various member servers.
• Created Backups for virtual machines through Veeam and added additional hard drives to the various hosts for increasing the space and also configured raid levels.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Windows-VMware Administrator, L3

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Building from scratch such as Servers deployment, Cabling & labeling, maintaining AC cooling, power monitoring.
• Using VMware V-Center created Data-Center Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Build virtual infrastructure from scratch.
• Involved wif designing and implementing VMware backup products.
• Perform server consolidation using VMware Converter to convert physical machines to virtual machines in a production environment.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting vSphere performance: CPU, memory, disk/storage, and other issues. implementation and supporting VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1/4.0/5.0/5.5 environment.
• Set up and Configured dvswitch for ESXi hosts and worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESXi hosts and Virtual machines.
• Virtualized Windows server using VMware Converter and Performed P2V's and V2V's using VMware convertor.
• Configuring VMware on clustered environment, implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using vMotion, Storage vMotion.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter and restored VM's using Veeam Backup.
• Virtual Machine Cloning, Templates and Snapshots and upgraded windows 2003 servers to 2008 servers.
• Configured HA and DRS, SDRS as per VMware best practices.
• Exporting diagnostic data from ESXi & Virtual center for advanced troubleshooting.
• Virtualized Windows servers 2000, 2003 & 2008 using VMware Converter 5.0 and 4.1.
• Install & configure update manager for ESXi server patching, Performance monitoring & analysis of ESXi & Virtual machines.
• Build Physical servers using Windows 2003/2008 ISO image on HP blades BL685 and BL465.
• Installation and Administration of Fail over cluster in Windows 2003/2008 environment.
• Sorted complex issues pertaining to hardware and network failure - Monitored both Hardware and Software systems for errors and updated them regularly to maintain proper functioning and flow of information.
• Deployed performance monitoring tools.
• Recommended new updates and changes required by the clients.
• Provide support for Windows Server 2003/2008, Active Directory, and other Windows-related technologies.
• Deploy Windows patches using SCCM.
• Migrate Server R2 Active Directory and FSMO Roles.
• Create group policy objects (GPO) and organizational units (OUs).
• Implemented user administration like adding, deleting and modifying user accounts.
• Coordinate and monitor troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common system problems: document system events to ensure continuous functioning. Recommend course of action and implement as approved.
• Handled technical documentation for quality, compliance and security purpose.
• Leading offshore team. Sending weekly reports to the client.
• The escalation chart is prepared for the client for his day-to-day problems.
• Proposed optimized solutions through best practices procedures and processes.

Confidential

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Install, maintain and solve technical problems of GPS devices
• Provide knowledge and support necessary in ensuring equipment compatibility, analyze data, perform technical assessments, perform engineering analysis.
• Provide support for Windows Server 2003/2008, and other Windows-related technologies.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Design, Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of ESX servers 3.5.
• Administrating VMware infrastructure 3.5 using vCenter 2.5.
• Troubleshoot user issues includes desktop, network, hardware and printer support.
• Administrating DNS, DHCP servers. Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager.
• Administering, monitoring and troubleshooting UNIX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux production servers
• Experienced wif x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance wif company policy. Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinate the implementation of the approved course of action.
• Coordinate testing, upgrade and configuration of system files and services. Ensure changes are in accordance wif appropriate operating procedures.

Confidential

IT Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility was to maintain availability of the corporate LAN consisting of servers, client workstations, laptops, printers.
• Provided support for desktop & mobile hardware (Windows, Apple and Android), OS, and application software.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assign permissions using Active Directory.
• Scheduling for the in-house and outside corporate meetings using WebEx.
• Scheduled and ensures all personnel comply wif requirements, work standards, policies, and procedures.
• Provided support for server hardware, OS, and network configuration.
• Monitored and maintained all global systems operating in the Data Center, encompassing Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008, VMware, and Active Directory. Installed windows operating system remotely over the network using WDS on Hitachi servers.
• Administering DHCP Server creation of reservation and under reservation options,configuring of router IP address.
• Created and uploaded tickets to monitor or different projects and keep track of all issues daily.
• Provide support for Windows Server 2003/2008, and other Windows-related technologies.
• Troubleshoot user issues includes desktop, network, hardware and printer support.